19 March 2009

Little Dorrit

This is just wonderful. Not much more to be said, really.666028-LittleDor-12235646872_18

19 Mar 2009 22:05:15 | Film

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Mouse or hippo? Sometimes, I just have to smile. Correction Nature 458, 263 (2009). doi:10.1038/458263e The Research Highlight 'Pogo-stick pictures' (Nature 458, 11; 2009) described the subject of the accompanying image as a mouse cochlear hair cell. It is in fact a hippocampal neuron. [PS don't ask me to correct this post title. It is a joke, possibly not a very good one, but a joke.]
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Sexism, yards and Tim Browsing through my RSS reader after two or three days "off" leads to some interesting snippets. Women bloggers face a sexist atmosphere online, apparently. At a meeting in Austen, Texas, Rebecca Fox, a blogger and managing editor of mediabistro.com said "Name-calling and denigrating outspoken women creates a sexist climate online". Robert Scoble, another scion of the internet, said "…Whenever I post a video of a female technologist there invariably are snide remarks about body parts and other things that simply wouldn't happen if the interviewee were a man." The Times AlphaMummy blog asks its readers whether they think women are criticised more harshly for their opinions online. A man called Kentucky responds: "Sounds like a bunch of dimb tarts who couldn't hold their own." A woman respondent replies: "Kentucky you spelt dim wrong!" This is a perfect example of a brilliant non-aggressive, total obliteration, put-down which I find it hard to imagine a man would have managed - or me, I would probably have risen to Kentucky's bait. (I'm learning, slowly). On to more profound matters. I could not agree more with Dave Knadler when he writes: "Blogging is no piece of cake, what with the need to motivate the...

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